Qayyum Ahmed, owner of the Royal Centre Plaza at Commercial Market, said that the government should compensate them, as it was the responsibility of the administration to check protesters who damaged the property.

Kaleem Ahmed, another plaza owner, said that nothing is safe in the country due to lawlessness. He stated that there is no justification to damage public property.

However owners of some plazas adopted a unique technique to save their properties from aggressive mobs by prominently displaying pictures and flags of the PML-N leaders on their buildings.